Digital Content Curation

an introduction

By: Akhlesh Agarwal

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Learning from internet is like drinking from fire hose

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• So as a teacher or researcher, we can do a great service to our students by providing links to curated content.

Curation process

SearchCurate

Re-create

CatalogIntegrate

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4Rs of open content• Reuse• Remix• Redistribute• Revise

Moodle

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Digital Curation

Curated content available to only NU students linked via

our moodle

Curated content visible to everybody

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• Become a curator• Publish links to select content• Content published in a magazine format • Share your curated magazine with world via

social media

• Search content curated by others

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A sample curated magazine on

scoop.it

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Benefits to me as a learnerEasy access to useful content without spending time for searching/browsing

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What other topics are there?Google for “scoop it <subject topic>”

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Thank you

akhlesh.agarwal@gmail.com

@akhlesha